Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-06-04
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
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Keokuk's new hotel is to cost $40, 900 and
be open for business by August l.
A Council Bluffs woman named Snethen ia
said to be q notable snake charmer.
The Dubuque Water company has p 1t down
over a mile Of water mains this spring.
A quite heavy frost nipped green things In
the vicinity of Eagle Grove Wednesday morn
ing.
Judge John w. Rogers, OF the Seventh
judicial district, died on Sunday at Daven-
port.
A Davenport negro severely stabbed a liv-
cry stable man named Bender on Sunday, and
was locked up.
Sam M. Clark, the Gate City editor, will
deliver the Grafton at the Decoration day SER
vices in Burlington.
The Courier is endeavoring to induce the
people Of Waterloo TO unite In an effort TO
discover natural gas.
The neat,st thing about Sioux City's
chamber of commerce is the artistic printing
OF the stock certificates.
The Storm Lake Tribune will shortly pub
lish al illustrated re view edition o. that paper.
The paper has a new dress.
The corner stone OF the new $4,000 N. L.
church at Creston, was laid with appropriate
ceremonies Friday afternoon.
State warrants outstanding last Saturday
amounted TO $685., 2S2. The treasury held at
the same time $3.50, Gan In cash.
Five Muscatine people recently received
$4,000 each from the estate OF a rich uncle,
VIM. Morrison, Of Allegheny, Pa.
In the car brake tests being made at Bur-
lington some wonderful results are being at
tanned through the use Of electricity.
Fort Dodge is to have a twenty-four stall
round-house, to oe built by the Illinois Cen
trail railroad, and Fort Dodge ~rejoices.
Albert Sullivan, n coal miner, was killed
day night. His head, arm and leg were cut
off.
Lake City raised 81, 27l to secure the loca-
ton OF the FOUND house and machine shops OF
A Dubuque young woman and an illinois
priest put up at an East Dubuque hotel as
man and wife and were taken in by the
police.
The annual tournament Of the Western
Rife association will be held this year at Wa
pelle, commencing August 80 and continuing
four days.
There Is strong talk Of moving the town Of
sheldahl and relocating 1t . mile north Of its
pracapt location 81 tina crncoipn ~ tho MI
waukee roads.
The executive comr"'ttee OF the Iowa Row
ing association has ,~stponed the annual re-
at Spirit Lake to July &c and %. En-
tries close July 20.
Parties in West Union are signing a petit
ton to Gov. Lnrrabee to commute the sem
tence Of Henry Schmidt, sentenced to be
hanged next January for the murder of
Abraham Peek.
The granting Of the Injunction by Judge
Wakefield against the payment Of interest on
the Lyon county bonds is being considerably
discussed In that county and the matter is
likely to figure largely in politics there.
Carroll had a free f0r.all saloon fight Mon
day in which a slugger named Ballard
polished off a number of iDesriated opponents
and was himself finally lodged in the Gala.
boose with three charges against him, one Of
which was resisting an officer.
Millions Of voracious worms arc at work on
the shade trees of Fort Madison, and unless
something Is lone TO satiate their greed the
trees will In a short time be stripped of
their verdure. The worms are from an inch
TO an inch and a half in length.
The meeting Of the county superintendent
OF the first congressional district, held at
Mount Pleasant last week, passed resolutions
against cheap schools and the plan of teach.
ers bidding against each other and ~favoring a
four year term for county superintendent.
An eight year old kid OF Council Bluffs
was found In a badly intoxicated state the
other day and "A kind hearted woman took
the boy in, gave him several hearty draughts
of hot water and then shut him up In an Ice
house. Az the %youngster has not since been
seen 1t Is presumed the treatment cured him.
George b. Slater, Of Clinton, a brakeman
on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad,
was knocked from a train at Bertram by the
spout Of a water tank which had not been
properly raised, and in falling struck his head
on the ground and broke his neck. He was a
young man about twenty-five and the sole
support OF his father and mother.
Mrs. Fehleiser, the young wife of a local
dealer at Newton, has been quite sick
for several days, and Sunday night, while the
were asleep, she got out Of bed and
the house. When she was missed quick
and anxious search was made for her, but
{ was not until several hours later that she
vas found two miles from home, wandering
In a slough and nearly exhausted.
rhe malady had affected her mind.
The vinton OIL and Gas company, with a
of $10O, 600, has filed articles OF incor-
with the secretary Of state. The
object Of the company is to prospect for oil
and ascertain whether petroleum., natural
gas, coal and other minerals exist or can be
an quantities as to be used and made
profitable Sy boring. digging or sinking wells
Dr. shafts in Benton county, Iowa, or else
where, or to procure water by sinking an
artesian well.
A party Of West Liberty young folks went
ishing on Big Run, about eight miles from
he town. During the day a rain storm came